
It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people.
Tags:
AIG,
Bank of America,
bank repossessions,
Bear Stearns,
Bill Quigley,
Center for Constitutional Rights,
Citigroup,
Declaration of Independence,
Fannie Mae,
foreclosure,
Freddie Mac,
giant triplets of racism materialism and militarism,
illegal torture,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
military bases,
Pentagon,
radical revolution of values,
registered lobbyists,
silence is betrayal,
surveillance,
the auto industry,
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP),
U.S. revolution,
Wall Street

As the G20 gathers again, they assemble amidst the wreckage of their own creation. Representatives of 20 of the alleged developed economies, they are instead representatives of casino capitalism, the use, misuse and grand-theft of public wealth to fund the bonuses of financial pirates which have looted the treasury of billions.
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Black Panther Party,
casino capitalism,
consumer based economy,
Foreclosures,
free labor,
Goldman Sachs,
lost 401ks,
lost benefits,
lost jobs,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
President Nicolas Sarkozy,
stimulus packages,
tax havens,
the G20,
Wall Street,
“Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.”

So Van Jones, activist, joins the Barack Obama administration, as the green energy czar, a field he’s passionate about, to provide jobs in Black communities and conserve natural resources as part of a larger change in America’s addiction to oil. But, almost immediately, Jones comes under attack from forces in America that really don’t want change.
Tags:
clean energy,
Dow Jones,
Harvard,
jobs,
Lani Guinier,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
police violence,
the Barack Obama administration,
the Clinton administrations Justice Department,
the environment,
Van Jones,
Wall Street,
Yale,
“communist”,
“Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.”,
“racist”

There are those who fear this warrior for justice. They are afraid of the accountability that must be applied to the transgressors, no matter who they are.
Tags:
Eric Holder,
Gen. Zhukov,
habeas corpus,
Harry C. Alford,
Justice Department,
National Black Chamber of Commerce,
Nuremberg Trials,
President Barack H. Obama,
torture,
Wall Street,
waterboarding

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into financial houses, banks and insurance companies, yet the needle on the nation’s economy has barely budged from “E.”